IIF 2019: Dimon and Gorman on regulation and why it sucks to be public

The CEOs of JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley worry about the consequences of capital and liquidity regulation – and are not surprised that companies prefer to stay private.

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The Friday lunchtime US bank chief executive chat is the star turn at the Washington DC meetings of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). This year the October 18 event was pared down to its essentials: the double act of JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman.

It started promisingly. Gorman sounded mildly startled by the opening music.

“Is that the Magnificent Seven?” he asked. “We’re a few short here!”

That was a taste of things to come.

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